The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

I think of myself as an actor.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Leadership is the ability to help people and organizations surpass themselves.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump's cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well.

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

Empathy comes from being empathized with.

I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.